About the Role
The Protection Site Engineer will be responsible for supervising, testing, commissioning, and maintaining protection systems in substations, power plants, and transmission/distribution networks. This role is essential in ensuring the reliable operation of protection schemes, compliance with standards, and the safe execution of site works.
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Responsibilities
- Review contractors’ design drawings and provide design approval.
- Responsible for reviewing inspection & testing procedures, FAT/SAT formats, and method statements.
- Verify relay setting calculations for both existing and new protection devices.
- Conduct adequacy checks for current and voltage transformer calculations.
- Witness the testing and commissioning of all protection equipment and ensure the protection and control philosophy is correctly implemented on-site per client specifications.
- Assist clients in the implementation of important protections such as Cable Differential/Distance, Transformer Differential & REF, Bus bar Differential (Low Impedance and High Impedance), and Reactor Differential, leveraging expertise with major OEMs like Siemens, GE (Alstom), and ABB.
- Ensure all protection and control signals are configured to substation SCADA (IEC61850) and National Control Centre (IEC104).
- Witness testing of Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) schemes for Transformers and Reactors.
- Verify protection and control schematics based on protection requirements.
- Troubleshoot faults in substations related to protection and control and provide corrective actions to clients.
- Review method statements submitted by contractors to ensure safe and reliable protection stability testing of Cable, Transformer, Reactor, and Busbar.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in protection and control engineering, specifically in substations, transmission & distribution, or power plants.
- Hands-on experience with protection relays from Siemens, ABB, GE, Schneider, SEL, etc.
- Knowledge of relay coordination, fault analysis, and power system protection schemes (distance, differential, overcurrent, etc.).
- Familiarity with testing tools such as Omicron, Doble, and Megger.
- Strong knowledge of IEC, IEEE, and local utility standards.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and site management skills.
